Madame le Professeur : : Women Educators in the Third Republic / / Jo Burr Margadant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Margadant, Jo Burr,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5285
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1: The Invention of the Woman Professeur --; Part I: Fashioning a New Women's Profession --; CHAPTER 2: Profiles of the First Recruits --; CHAPTER 3: Forging a Sevrienne Tradition --; CHAPTER 4: Young Teachers in a Fledgling Profession --; CHAPTER 5: Young Teachers and Their Families --; CHAPTER 6: Victim, Rebel, or Martyr? Images of the Young Teacher --; Part II: A Generation and an Institution Come of Age --; CHAPTER 7: Professional Ambition in a Feminine Key --; CHAPTER 8: Shaping Girls' Schools in the Belle Epoque --; CHAPTER 9: Sevriennes in a Nation at War --; Part III: Generation and an Institution in Crisis --; CHAPTER 10: A Separate and Equal Women's Profession --; CHAPTER 11: Aging in a Changing Professional World --; CHAPTER 12: Retreat into the Home --; Conclusion --; Glossary of Frequently Used French Terms --; Sources and Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691194660; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691194660?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jo Burr Margadant.

A collective biography of France's first generation of female secondary schoolteachers, this book examines the conflict between their public and private lives and places their new professional standing wtihin the political culture of the Third Republic. Jo Burr Margadant charts the responses of women who attended the nornmal school of Sevres during the 1880s to their roles as teachers and subordinates in the public school system, their plight as outsiders in the social community, and their gains toward educational reforms. These women emerge as pioneers struggling to forge careers in an elite profession, which was separate and inferior to its male equivalent and also controlled by men.Margadant explains that the first women teacher in girls' colleges and lycees were expected to project an intellectually assertive presence in the classroom while maintaining a maternal solicitude toward students and a modest, self-effacing style with superiors. Many who succeeded progressed to administrative jobs and, in some cases, filled official posts left vacant by men during the First World War. The author shows how these achievements led to the transformations of girls' secondary schools into replicas of those for boys and to equal treatment for women and men in the teaching profession.Jo Burr Margadant is Lecturer in History at Santa Clara University.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.